The former hospice care center at 7100 SW Scholls Ferry Road was donated to the church, church spokeswoman Carol Wilkerson said. Members of the congregation also donated money and raised funds to remodel the building.

Portland Community Church took root in Beaverton in September 2011 and the 450-person congregation has been meeting at Whitford Middle School since the church's inception.

Kinkaid has been the pastor of the church for more than two years. Not everyone felt comfortable meeting for church in a middle school cafeteria, he said, so having a permanent home for the congregation is important.

"It means a nicer facility," he said of the upcoming move. "It feels like a church, and maybe it didn't (at the school)."

Construction work to remodel the new church started in August 2013. The biggest pieces of the project were adding a parking lot and opening up a room large enough to house hundreds of churchgoers for Sunday services and events.

Middle school and high school youth groups will now have their own space in a house, called "The Box," adjacent to the church.

Portland Community Church's last gathering at the middle school will be Sunday, May 25. The June 1 sermon will be delivered in the new building.

An official grand opening is set for June 15.

The church hosts Sunday services at 9 a.m. and 10:45 a.m., the second service with a sign language interpreter, according to Wilkerson. Classes are open for childcare during the services, and there are men's and women's bible studies during the week.

Portland Community Church also holds sermons and studies outside of the church, including several weekly events at Edgewood Point Senior Living.

Kincaid said Portland Community Church is focused largely on community service.

"We want to make a difference in some of the neediest people in the community," he said. "We're not here to serve ourselves and the people who call this their church. We're here to serve the community."

Churchgoers pack weekend backpacks of food for students at Whitford Middle School and McKay Elementary School along with putting together holiday food and gift boxes for local families. The church also serves as a weekly gathering place for recovering drug and alcohol addicts in support group programs.

"We just want to be present and accessible in the community," Wilkerson said.